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68 Cards in this Set
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Acerbic
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harsh; bitter; caustic
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Acrimonious
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angry; caustic; sarcastic
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Admonish
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reprimand; caution
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Antipathy
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aversion; dislike; feeling of opposition
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Apathy
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lack of concern or interest; indifference
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Ascetic
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austere; strict
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Authoritarian
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tyrant; disciplinarian
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Avarice
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greed; desire for wealth
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Bilk
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deceive; cheat; defraud
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Browbeat
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dominate; harass; intimidate
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Charlatan
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hustler; fake; fraud
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Churlish
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surely; selfish; quarrelsome
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Coercion
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duress; force; compulsion
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Contentious
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argumentative; pugnacious; quarrelsome
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Deleterious
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destructive; unhealthy; poionous
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Demagogue
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a person who appeals to the emotion and prejudices of people
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Depravity
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corruption; wickedness; perverted disposition
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Deprecate
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to express disapproval of; belittle
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Desecrate
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contaminate; defile; profane
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Despot
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dictator; tyrant; totalitarian
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Diatribe
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tirade; bitter and abusive speech
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Dilatory
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inclined to delay or procastinate
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Efface
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to obliterate or obscure by or as if by rubbing out
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Effigy
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image; a crude figure of a hated person
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Enervate
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to lessen the strength or vigor of
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Expunge
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obliterate; erase
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Fatuous
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foolish; silly
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Flippant
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lacking proper respect or seriousness
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Gauche
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lacking social polish; tactless
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Guile
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deceitful cunning
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Haughty
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disdainfullly proud
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Iconoclast
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one who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
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Insular
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circumscribed and detached in outlook and experience; narrow or provincial
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Lurid
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gruesome; sensational
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Malevolent
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having, showing, or arising from ill will or hatred
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Malinger
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to feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work
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Nefarious
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very wicked; evil
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Nemesis
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one that inflicts retribution or vengeance
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Noxious
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harmful especially to health or morals
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Obdurate
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stubbornly resistant; unyielding
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Officious
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volunteering one's services where they are neither asked for nor needed
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Ostentatious
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conspicuous; showy
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Pejorative
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having negative connotations
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Philistine
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a person who is smugly insensitive or indifferent to intellectual or artistic values
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Pique
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to irritate; offend
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Polemical
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of or relating to an argument or controversy
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Puerile
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childish; silly; youthful
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Pugilism
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boxing
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Pugnacious
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having a quarrelsome or combative nature
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Querulous
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constantly complaining; whinning
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Quixotic
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foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
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Rancorous
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antagonistic; hostile; spiteful
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Recalcitrant
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stubbornly resisting authority; resistant to handling or treatment
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Refractory
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stubborn; unmanageable
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Reproach
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to express disapproval of, critisim of, or disappointment in someone
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Repudiate
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to disown; to refuse to have anything to do with
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Ribald
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coarse or indecent, especially in language
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Spurious
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not genuine; false
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Spurn
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to kick away or trample on; to reject with disdain
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Stoic
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One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
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Stolid
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having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive
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Stratagem
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a deceptive scheme; skill in deception
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Supercilious
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haughtily contemptuous
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Surly
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having a rude, unfriendly disposition
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Sycophant
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a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people
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Truculent
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disposed to fight; pugnacious
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Vehement
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marked by great force or energy
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Xenophobe
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a person who dislikes strangers or foreigners
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